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A stunning exhibition catalogue to mark the centenary of the foundation of the Italian futurist movement, whose 1909 manifesto proclaimed “that the world’s magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed.” The book contains the first-ever anthology of key nineteenth and twentieth-century statements on speed and slowness from Thomas de Quincey to F. T. Marinetti to J. G. Ballard, and it provides an innovative, synthetic, in-depth investigation into speed’s significance with respect to modern life―time-space compression; and new ideas about pleasure, selfhood, and consumption; changes in the character and pace of urban and rural life; new modes of organizing, communicating, and sharing information. The exhibition will be launched at the Canadian Center for Architecture (Montreal) in May 2009, in concomitance with the Montreal Grand Prix Formula One race. It will then travel to the Wolfsonian-FIU (Miami Beach) to reopen in February 2010 during the annual celebrations of Daytona Speed Week.
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Jeffrey T. Schnapp is the faculty director of metaLAB at Harvard University and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
Yve-Alain Bois studied at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes under the guidance of Roland Barthes and Hubert Damisch. A founder of the French journal "Macula, " Bois is currently a professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ.
Edward Dimendberg is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine.
Maria Gough is Associate Professor of Art History at Stanford University
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The pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art and architecture to graphics and design to material culture.
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Brossura. Condition: fine. Montreal, Canadian Centre For Architecture, May 20 - October 12, 2009.Miami Beach, The Wolfsonian - Florida International University, September 17, 2010 - February 20, 2011.Montreal, Canadian Centre For Architecture, 20 maggio - 12 ottobre 2009.Miami Beach, The Wolfsonian - Florida International University, 17 settembre 2010 - 20 febbraio 2011.English Text.Milano, 2009; paperback, pp. 320, 52 b/w ill., 89 col. plates, cm 16,5x24. The pivotal role played by speed in modern life: from art and architecture to graphics and design to the material culture.One hundred years ago, "The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism," proclaimed that "the world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed." A century later, the tempo of life continues to accelerate, propelled by the ubiquity of portable media and communications devices. Speed sports are as popular as ever, air travel continues to grow, and car culture is invading the most populous areas of the globe. Business books with titles like The Need for Speed, Speed is Life, Rev it Up, and The Age of Speed proliferate on bookstore shelves as never before. Yet speed seems anything but beautiful to a growing chorus of voices that has arisen to denounce its deleterious impact upon contemporary life: whether from the standpoint of environmental devastation, stressful lifestyles, urban sprawl, or the ubiquity of nutritionally deficient fast food.Key Sales Information - Speed limits explores the powers and limits of the modern era's cult of speed in four key domains: construction and the built environment, circulation and transit, economic production, and the mind/body relationship.- Whereas the Futurist centenary is being marked by several important exhibitions that commemorate the movement's impact on the arts, Speed limits is critical in character, exploring a single Futurist theme from the standpoint of its contemporary legacies.- This book is the companion volume of an exhibition about complex choices and complex consequences, about polarities but also about intertwinings between the fast and slow.Author Jeffrey T. Schnapp occupies the Pierotti Chair in Italian Literature at Stanford University, where he is professor of French and Italian, and Comparative Literature. In 2000 he founded the Stanford Humanities Lab, a transdiciplinary research center dedicated to exploring scenarios for the future of knowledge production and reproduction in the arts and humanities. Libro. Seller Inventory # 1896983
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